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It looks almost like a Jeep Renegade, Kei car mix.
The tires and wheels look oddly undersized to me. While the body is a lot more bulbous than I'd have thought it would. And that combo together gives it an odd look (IMO).
Have more to say about the looks, but none of it is particularly helpful.
And I say this as someone who didn't think the Aztek was as ugly as everyone made it out to be
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Well to start off -bahahahahaha! If I say I heard from a SM employee take that with 94.496% accuracy-all subject to change. Anything else I say may be logical, reasonable or utter BS!
I can’t see any way in why the BEV would delay. This started out being EV and to then put it on hold and offer EREV seems crazy to me personally. But u til they tell us I guess it will be wait and see
I still think EREV will be higher just due to covering engineering costs. They are fighting to keep the BEV u see $60K so you can’t exactly throw money on the EV side to offset R&D and now the base BEV is $63-64k
It's a shame, Toyota had a good foundation to build off of from the FJ Cruiser. At least we won't be disappointed if it doesn't make it to the states. Now the 70 series on the other hand....Uglier than a Pontiac Aztek-
Well said and it is sad. The more recent retro inspired vehicles all seem to be hitting a great balance of new, old and evolved design cues but as much as the original was desirable, this just went the wrong direction AND the proportions are just odd!
Maybe there’s hope that the new Nissan Xterra will hit the proper design cues
To think they squandered their early innovation lead in Hybrids. Goes to show you what can happen when your CEO kowtows to the O&G lobby in Japan for years on end. I used to love my old Toyota's, but I won't own one again. And, even better, Scout is made in the USA.
It's based on the Hilux platform (IMV) so it's probably rugged and capable.
The fact that they talk about articulation, is a good thing likely. And the Hilux is renowned. So thats another good thing.
Although now that I see that its not planned for the US, or EU markets, I get the looks a bit more.
Not sure how to say this, but the styling didn't look like something intended for the US/EU. It looks more like what I'm used to seeing out of older Chinese cars, or sold in India, etc.
Which means, maybe they got it right for their intended market.
They need to keep it like the old one. We had one. It was a good looking vehicle. And it came in yellow. We had black, but still.
I could see thm being pretty similar in price considering they will both be built on the same production line. Not two separate lines. That keeps costs down alot.
What I don’t get in the article is they imply VW is hemorrhaging money so instead of ramping up the Scout with the BEV’s they should sit around and wait 4-6 months longer until the EREV is ready. That makes no sense to me. Start the BEVs, get the production ramped up so as soon as EREV’s are ready they can crank up the production line to push out the erev’s
Im still confused on the article for the reason of that VW hasn't said one thing about low funds. The last time they reported that was last December. And plus Scout Motors is built to go public if needed. So i see no issue funding wises. Seems to be false information totally. And almost every Car company is struggling at the moment. Due to no stability in the tariffs. Once that gets sorted out and stable the car market will be completely different.
There so much info to keep up with, so I may have missed it. Has it been confirmed that the EREV is behind the timeline of the BEV?
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